Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Goodbye Dylan


     How can a day with so much potential for being wonderful turn so horrible so quickly? I returned from the morning chores to find my sweet Dylan hanging by his leash from a tree limb, dead. He’s never been a climber, so I can’t imagine how it happened. I still can’t believe he’s gone. Workampers Steve and Fred helped me bury him just outside, where he loved to roll in the dust. I’ve already been through the thousands of “If only”’s (If only I had just let him wander instead of keeping him on the leash, if only I had put him in the RV this morning, if only I hadn’t lingered over coffee at the café, if only his leash had been a foot shorter so he couldn’t reach the tree, etc. etc.). It doesn’t help—he’s gone. 

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